In this special episode, we speak with Jordyn Willens , the Global Program Director at Weve Acceleration , where she is responsible for supporting international growth-stage startups looking to enter and scale in the US market. She offered great insight into what it takes to set up, launch, and scale a startup in the US. We discussed the following - ✔Who is Weve and what makes their service unique ✔The steps companies should take when looking to make their first full-time hire in the US ✔What co...
Jan 10, 2024•27 min•Season 2Ep. 4
This is Episode 3 of the ThinkData Podcast , brought to you in partnership with Dataworks. In this episode, I sat down with Rohan Doctor , the Founder and CEO of Louisa.AI . Louisa AI maximizes the revenues of Financial Institutions by connecting Expertise + Relationships + Intel. We had a great discussion, talking about the following - Rohan's background and how the idea for Louisa came about Who is Louisa and what problem is it trying to solve What were some of the initial challenges/considera...
Jan 04, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 3
This is Episode 2 in the second season of the ThinkData podcast ! Our podcast is presented in partnership with Dataworks, and today, I am very excited to have Suman Kanuganti on the show. Suman is the Co-Founder & CEO of Personal.ai, which has been making a huge amount of noise in the AI space. Personal AI uses your data, and opinions to create a unique interactive messaging experience! In this episode, we will be showcasing how effective this tool is in real time! We discussed - • Suman's b...
Dec 14, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 2
This is the first episode of Season 2 of the ThinkData Podcast in partnership with Dataworks and what better way to kick off the new season than to welcome Amit Govrin to the show! Amit is the Co-Founder & CEO at Kubiya , the world's first DevOps virtual assistant, powered by AI! Kubiya was launched back in May 2022, and since then has experienced rapid growth and gained a huge amount of interest from the world of cloud and DevOps! Amit gave a really detailed account of what it is like to co...
Nov 29, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 1
This is Episode 30 of the ThinkData podcast which also marks the end of Season 1. Our podcast is presented in partnership with Dataworks , and today, we're delighted to have Thierry Tremblay on the show. Thierry is the CEO and founder of Kohezion, a platform specializing in low-code and no-code database software solutions We covered a huge amount, including: What is the backstory to launching Kohezion, and how has Thierry's vision for the platform evolved since its inception How will no-code/low...
Nov 13, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 30
This is Episode 29 of the ThinkData podcast in partnership with Dataworks and on today's show, we welcome Solomon Kahn ! Solomon is the Founder & CEO of Delivery Layer . This SaaS Data Platform has been built, “to improve the time to market and customer experience for data products”. With over 15 years of experience working in Data & Analytics, Solomon has worked for Paperless Post, Nielsen, and Helium 10 before launching his own start-up Delivery Layer in August 2023. We spoke about - •...
Nov 02, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 29
This is Episode 28 of the ThinkData podcast in partnership with Dataworks and on today's show we welcome Amanda Fetch ! Amanda is the Head of Applied Science at Data Squared and has over 20 years of experience in Data and analytics, which has seen her work for The Bloc, SiriusXM, and Macy's. Amanda provides training, support, and mentorship to the next cohort of Data professionals, and has recently been recognized by Linkedin as a Top voice within Artificial Intelligence This was a great discuss...
Oct 26, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 28
This is Episode 27 of the Thinkdata podcast in partnership with Dataworks and on today's show, I welcome Ahmet Gyger to the show. Ahmet is the Senior Director of AI product at Domino Data Lab and has a wealth of experience in product management which has seen him work for the likes of Apple, Microsoft & Salesforce. Ahmet leads AI product development at Domino, the Enterprise MLOps platform trusted by over 20% of the Fortune 100. We spoke about: His background and what made him leave the rela...
Oct 18, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 27
This is Episode 26 of the Thinkdata podcast in partnership with Dataworks and today we welcome Chris Brown to the show. Chris is a Partner Manager at Nvidia , responsible for supporting startups by giving them access to Nvidia resources, and full go-to-market support. Nvidia engineers the most advanced chips, systems, and software that powers Artificial intelligence, and is one of the fastest-growing technology companies of all time. Chris gave a fascinating insight into what it is like to work ...
Oct 12, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 26
This is Episode 25 of the Thinkdata podcast in partnership with Dataworks and in this episode, we welcome Amanda Bickerstaff to the show. Amanda is a former high school biology teacher and Edtech executive who is now the Founder and CEO at “ AI for Education ”. Their mission is to help educators and academic institutions adopt AI technology, responsibly! We covered a lot of topics, including - Background to Amanda, and when did she come up with the idea for AI for Education How Amanda took that ...
Oct 08, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 25
This is Episode 24 of the Thinkdata podcast in partnership with Dataworks and I am pleased to welcome Bryce York to the show. Bryce is the Director of Product Management for Tatari , which is a leading platform for buying and measuring advertising across linear and streaming TV. They use cutting-edge Data & AI technology to help advertisers buy and place adverts! Bryce is an expert in his field and for anyone who has the slightest bit of interest in how AI is helping drive advertising within...
Oct 02, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 24
This is Episode 23 of the Thinkdata podcast in partnership with Dataworks and in this episode, I spoke to Scott Breitenother . Scott is the CEO and founder of Brooklyn Data company , and they are regarded as one of the leading modern data analytics consulting firms out there. Following the acquisition by Velir in March this year, he assumed the role of Chief Data officer, and is now working across the group helping to drive data-driven decision-making across their customer base! Scott's passion,...
Sep 27, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 23
This is Episode 22 of the ThinkData Podcast in partnership with Dataworks and we had the pleasure of speaking with Hardika Narula from Involve AI & R2D2. Hardika is the Senior Director of Product at Involve AI & R2D2 and was recently voted one of the United States' top 100 directors in Artificial intelligence. Involve AI is a Series A SaaS platform within the customer intelligence space who have been experiencing rapid growth since its Series A towards the back end of 2021. This was a re...
Sep 20, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 22
This is Episode 21 of the ThinkData Podcas t in partnership with Dataworks and it was my pleasure to welcome Jay Sarmaz to the show. Jay is the CEO and Co-founder at Truve. Truve is an AI-powered legal analytics platform for law firms and their platform helps firms understand performance whilst at the same time helping to drive efficiencies across all parts of the business. We had a great discussion, covering a number of topics, such as - Jay's background, what brought him to the US, and then to...
Sep 18, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 21
This is Episode 20 of the Thinkdata podcast in partnership with Dataworks and it is great to welcome Rajesh Kandaswamy to the show. Rajesh spent 10 years at Gartner where he was their chief of research and fellow and is now in the process of launching his own AI product, whilst also advising a handful of companies that are looking to realize the full potential of AI and generative AI. Widely recognized as one of the leading voices in the world of AI, Rajesh offers a refreshing and fascinating in...
Sep 08, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 20
This is Episode 19 of the ThinkData Podcast in partnership with Dataworks and I am pleased to welcome Alex Furman to the show Alex is the Co-founder and CEO of Performica who are a SaaS platform within the People and Performance management space. Their tool helps managers and companies retain key staff, improve culture, and ultimately increase profits! Alex started out as a Software engineer, and has a wealth of experience in building and launching greenfield products from the ground up! This wa...
Sep 05, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 19
This is Episode 18 of the ThinkData podcas t in partnership with Dataworks and in this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Calvin Gerus . Calvin is the Director of Product at Borealis, the AI research arm of the Royal Bank of Canada. He started his career as an electrical engineer in 2007, and since then, he has gone on to build AI and Data teams for the likes of Autodesk, Foresee, and Allocadia. We discussed - What brought him from a career in electrical engineering to now leading rese...
Jul 14, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In this episode, we spoke with Vinesh Sukumar , the Senior Director of AI and ML product at Qualcomm. Vinesh has a wealth of experience in Product Management and Artificial intelligence and has worked for the likes of Nasa, Intel, Lenovo, and most recently Qualcomm. He is also a member of the board of advisors for the AI forum, and is an AI advisor to San Francisco & California state university! We had a cracking discussion about - His background, which started Nasa in an early AI & Data...
Jun 22, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 17
This is Episode 16 of the Thinkdata podcast in partnership with Dataworks and I am excited to welcome Santiago Pombo to the show. Santiago is the Director of Product at Thoughtspot , responsible for leading their Search and AI product team. He has over 10 years of product management experience, which has seen him build and launch products for the likes of Meltwater, HP, Adobe, and most recently Thoughtspot. This was a fascinating episode with Santiago offering a deep insight into his career to d...
Jun 13, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 16
This is Episode 15 of the ThinkData podcast in partnership with Dataworks . On today’s show, I am pleased to welcome Irene Bratsis . Irene is the Director of Digital product and Data for the international WELL building institute, the Author of the AI product managers handbook as well as the NYC Co-Lead for Women in Data. She also moderates the Women in AI (WAI) Talks. This was a very upbeat and energetic discussion, and we spoke about a LOT, including - Background to Irene, and what took her fro...
Jun 05, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 15
This is episode 14 of the ThinkData podcast in partnership with Dataworks On today’s show, we welcome Serena Huang , the Founder of Data with Serena and the Chief Data officer at ABE . Serena has worked for the likes of Paypal, Kraft Heinz, and GE within People Analytics and has also recently joined Linkedin as a course instructor! We had a great conversation about the following - Serena's background and what ultimately brought her to ABE.work Who are ABE and what is the vision behind it? As som...
May 30, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This is episode 13 of the ThinkData podcast in partnership with Dataworks. Today we welcome Ghalib Suleiman , the Founder and CEO of Polytomic , the world's first anywhere ETL platform. Ghalib has over 15 years of experience within Data & Tech which saw him launch Polytomic back in 2019. We spoke about His background in Data and Tech and what led him to launch Polytomic What is Polytomic and what makes their platform and product unique What you should try and avoid when you're a data team of...
May 08, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 13
This is episode 12 of the ThinkData podcast in partnership with Dataworks. In this episode, we welcomed Ari Kaplan from Databricks. Ari is the Head Evangelist responsible for increasing awareness of the Databricks product and has a fascinating background in Sports analytics, where he spent several years with the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago Cubs. His career has seen him then work for the likes of Nielson and Datarobot where he has been at the forefront of Data and AI for over 15 years. We cover...
May 01, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 12
This is Episode 11 of the ThinkData Podcast in partnership with Dataworks. In this episode, I spoke with Mitch Vidler who is the Global Director of Marketing Analytics and Investments at Entain Group (owners of Ladbrokes, Bwin, Gala). Mitch heads up a global team of specialists who are tasked with ensuring Entain's £1billion+ marketing budget across new and existing customers around the globe is delivering maximum short and long-term sustainable growth. We discussed - What took Mitch from his ea...
Apr 04, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 11
This is Episode 10 of the ThinkData podcast in partnership with Dataworks and I had the pleasure of speaking with Kedeisha Bryan who is a Senior Data Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. Kedeisha's career started in the US Navy where she was an Aviation Electronics Technician, and in 2021 she decided to pursue a career in Data! Kedeisha has amassed a fantastic following on Linkedin and is a regular contributor to the Data and Tech community. She is the founder of Data in Motion which is a fantasti...
Mar 30, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 10
This is Episode 9 of the ThinkData podcast in Partnership with Dataworks and ACV and I am super excited to welcome John Coles to the podcast in this episode. John is the Senior Director of Data Science and Analytics at ACV and they are one of America’s largest digital marketplaces and data services partners for the automotive sector. In the first episode of a 3 part series, we will be talking about how ACV trained, hired, and developed their very own Data Team in the Buffalo area! We discussed -...
Mar 27, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 9
This is Episode 8 of the ThinkData Podcast and in this episode, we spoke with Alon Bochman who heads up Privacy, Transparency & Compliance at YouTube Ads. He has an excellent background in Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning which has seen him build and launch some of the most innovative and cutting-edge AI products for Microsoft, YouTube, and Genpact. We discussed - His background and journey to Google(from a non-classic career in finance to launching and selling his first software...
Mar 21, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This is Episode 7 of the ThinkData Podcast and we had a great chat with Michelle Ballen who heads up Data & Analytics at Future who are a fast-growing Personal training platform in the US. We discussed - What steps companies should take when establishing a culture and environment of self-service analytics and who is ultimately responsible for the internal adoption of those tools? Why Data governance should be embraced and not feared. What are the benefits of organizations adopting and foster...
Mar 13, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This is Episode 6 of the ThinkData Podcast and we had a great chat with Tre Williams who heads up Data modeling at Bitly, the world leading Link management platform. We discussed - What is behind the rise in importance and demand for Data modelers with experience in the modern data stack How DBT has become the modeling tool of choice How Tre navigated his way through to his current role, despite not having the classic STEM education and Data analyst background Why is it so important for data eng...
Feb 14, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 6
This is Episode 5 of the ThinkData Podcast and we had the honor of speaking with Rob Strechay who is the Founder of Smuget Consulting that are a specialist consultancy focused on the Data product space. Rob has a wealth of experience within Tech and Data and has built and scaled Product teams for the likes of HP, Amazon, NetApp, Zerto, and Snowplow. We discussed - What is behind the rise in demand for Data Product Managers What are the main blockers for companies when it comes to setting up a pr...
Feb 07, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 5
